A Shoshana
Biographic Data
| ID | 14939 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Shoshana |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Shoshana |
| SIGNATURE | SHOSHANA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Haifa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9902-5384 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 68 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 125 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 68 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Institutional interactions of low-SES parents seeking special education services for their children
This article examines the interactions of low socioeconomic status (SES) parents of children with disabilities with the educational system’s institutions in their pursuit of special education services. In-depth interviews with low-SES parents indicate that they possess a strong class consciousness, derived from their understanding of social hierarchy and realizing that their lower position within this hierarchy does not afford them social advanta…
Narratives of justifications: Politics of privilege among Palestinian elite school principals in Israel
How do teachers in schools from different socioeconomic classes perceive their students’ future
No matter what I do, it’s not good enough”: Practicing “good” parenting and emotional burden among high-ses parents
This article examines two primary questions: characterises the parenting culture of high-SES parents (in terms of income, education, occupation, and residence) whose children are enrolled in an elite high school? Does the parenting culture of parents of elite high school students play a role in cultivating privileges, and if so, how? To answer these questions, we interviewed 30 pairs of parents whose children were enrolled in such a school in Isr…
Coaching for ‘fitting in’: Coaches, soccer, and education in professional sports clubs in low-ses towns
Elite identities in high schools: Entitlement, pragmatism, a sense of best place, and apoliticism
Hierarchies of Elitism among Urban and Rural Palestinian Students in Israel
This research investigates Palestinian students residing in both urban and rural areas who are enrolled in an elite high school located in a mixed Arab-Jewish city in northern Israel. We investigate how these divergent backgrounds influence their experiences and perceptions of their elite identities and how elite identities within national minority sub-groups (urban and rural) impact the formation and perpetuation of intra-group hierarchies. We f…
Where are we in this process’? Teachers' attitudes regarding the amendment to the special education law in Israel
The study's primary research question is how teachers whose inclusive classes include children with disabilities experienced the most recent amendment (2018) to Israel's Special Education Law. Interviews with 20 teachers revealed four key findings: a sense of professional isolation when having to cope with the challenges of having students with disabilities in general classrooms; concealing emotions (e.g., shame) linked to their ambivalent views …
School without parents: Problematizing the Accounts of Vocational School Principals About Their Relationships With Their Students' Parents
This article examines how vocational school principals in Israel view their relationships with their students' parents. Interviews with 26 vocational school principals reveal three predominant themes: lamenting the parents' lack of involvement, describing the parents through the deficit discourse, and adopting a managerial strategy of operating a ‘school without parents.’ This approach to parents carries implications, such as implementing many im…
Open' reincarnation stories: The dialectic between doubt and certainty
This phenomenological study concerns the Druze cultural idiom Notq-the remembrance and talking about the previous incarnation. Specifically, it deals with stories that are open or referred to in the literature as unsolved. 'Open' Notq stories are in contrast to solved ones in which the person's identity in the previous life is known and in many cases the person meets the previous life family. The study's core question is: What is the phenomenolog…
We May Look Like Cream-of-the-Crop Kids, but it's Tough Here: Elite Identity, Emotional Burden, and Ethical Transgressions Among Students at an Elite High School
This article explores the identity of students at an elite high school and how it contributes to privilege and inequality. Thirty-two students from an elite high school in Israel were interviewed to examine two main questions: What characterizes these students' identity? How does their identity impact the cultivation and fostering of privilege and inequality? The findings identify three components of the elite student identity: (1) entitlement, a…
Class Consciousness as Cultural Capital among High-SES Parents of Children with Disabilities
This article proposes to examine the parenting features of high socioeconomic class (SES) parents of children with disabilities. This examination also enables us to clarify to what extent high-SES parenting of children with disabilities aligns with the prevailing research on high-SES parenting of children without disabilities. To resolve this question, semi-structured interviews were conducted with high-SES parents of children with disabilities i…
It's not a genuine elite: Partial habitus of advantage among Palestinian graduates of elite schools in Israel
Within the marginalized Palestinian minority in Israel, a small elite has emerged; they are uniquely challenged as elite within their national group yet marginalized as citizens of the Jewish state. Through the perspectives of an elite private high school in Northern Israel, this qualitative study sought to elucidate this complicated reality. We asked graduates how they integrate their school experiences into their life narratives, understand and…
One step forward or two steps back? The attitudes of parents of students with disabilities regarding the amendment to the special education law in Israel
One prominent change in the amendment to the Special Education Law in the State of Israel (2018) concerns the dissolution of placement committees and their transformation into characterization and eligibility committees. These characterization and eligibility committees determine children's eligibility for special education, whereas parents decide the nature of their school placement. Through in‐depth interviews with parents of school‐aged childr…
Design my everyday life, my tomorrow, my future, on my own, without anyone helping me”: Future Orientation Among Vocational Education Students in Israel
This article offers an interpretive examination of the future orientation of students in vocational schools as part of their vocational habitus. Through in-depth interviews with 30 adolescents (16 boys, 14 girls), the study identified three key future orientations: (1) the vague use of the term ‘success’ in the absence of an accompanying description of specific goals for achieving that success; (2) the future described through ‘hard individualism…
"Each student is fitted with a customized suit": Teacher identity, the burden of intensive educational work, and ethical transgressions among teachers at an elite high school
Rights consciousness, sense of constraint and the reproduction of inequalities: Perceptions of rights among pupils of low socioeconomic status who completed a human rights education unit
This study explores the intersection of rights consciousness, rights mobilisation and cultural capital among high school pupils of low socioeconomic status.The research design comprised interviews with Israeli pupils who completed a human rights education (HRE) unit in civic studies.The findings indicated that the vast majority of pupils demonstrated a developed rights consciousness and noted that the HRE studies assisted them in naming rights vi…
Where has the sense of ease gone? Ambivalent elite identity among Palestinian students in Israel
This article explores elite high school identities among Palestinian youth in Israel, a stigmatised national ethnic minority. Two research questions guide this study: how do high school students in an elite school perceive and encounter their identity and how does their elitism interact with their identity as members of a stigmatised national group? This qualitative examination is based on 15 interviews with high school students. While their elit…
Unanticipated outcomes of an occupational rehabilitation group on low-SES ultra-Orthodox women’s self-concept
Beyond a sense of obliviousness: Elite education and national identity among Palestinian students in Israel
Through interviews with Palestinian students in elite schools in Israel, we delve into the intersection between experiences of elite identities and national identities. Contrary to the conventional narrative of hegemonic elite education promoting apolitical attitudes, our findings reveal that Palestinian students, belonging to a stigmatized minority group, prioritize academic excellence alongside a strong emphasis on Palestinian patriotism and na…
Soon you will go far’: Discourse analysis on vocational education policy of Israel
This article performs a discourse analysis on the recent interest of the Israeli Ministry of Education in vocational education by examining governmental and organisational texts. This article addresses two key questions. What is the government's justification for its renewed interest in vocational education? What are its discursive practices to promote vocational education in the context of the current neoliberal discourse on equality and meritoc…
Problematising teachers' accounts of privilege in elite high schools
The research question at the core of this paper concerns how teachers in elite Israeli high schools explain their educational work in this context, given its central role in establishing and perpetuating privilege in the current polarised era. To answer this question, we conducted 28 interviews with teachers from three elite high schools in Israel. The findings reveal three ways teachers justified their educational work in elite schools: cultivat…
Occupational Rehabilitation or Self-Change? Practices for Self-Change in an Occupational Rehabilitation Group for Ultra-Orthodox Low-SES Women in Israel
This article is based on ethnographies in an occupational rehabilitation group for unemployed and underemployed Jewish ultra-Orthodox low socioeconomic status women in Israel. The ethnographies tracked the cross-cultural encounter between ultra-Orthodox women and an organization that uses neoliberal practices in its occupational rehabilitation. The findings revealed the implications of practices promoting autonomy and freedom to choose, psycholog…
Intimacy in the Occupational Rehabilitation Group for Ultra-Orthodox Women of Low Socioeconomic Status
This ethnographic study of an occupational rehabilitation group for low socioeconomic status ultra-Orthodox women in the Israeli labor market investigates the expression, and role, of intimacy. The findings demonstrate that intimacy appeared early on, revealing an immediate intersubjective understanding between the women, which manifested in empathy, harmony and advocacy, and shared language. They experienced a cross-cultural encounter with a neo…
“Sitting in the back seat”: The convergence of early recollections, self and others, and low socioeconomic class
The language of everyday racism and microaggression in the workplace: Palestinian professionals in Israel
Based on interviews with Palestinian professionals in Jewish organizations in Israel, this article discloses a distinctive practice of 'everyday racism' and microaggression - a language of everyday racism. This 'language of everyday racism' refers to Hebrew words and expressions that are routinely used by Jews in their mundane conversations and that include the word 'Arab' when describing a deficiency or defect, some sort of unsightliness, filth,…
The Ethic of Spirituality and the Non-Angry Subject
This article is based on ethnographic studies of several spiritual groups in Israel. It offers a critical analysis of the discursive practices employed with regard to the link between spirituality and anger. We found that the emotion of anger occupies a singular status in New Age culture. By marking it as an uncontrollable and explosive emotion, anger is constructed as a key emotion that reflects and signifies the subject's proximity to the ideal…
Ethnographies of "A Lesson in Racism": Class, Ethnicity, and the Supremacy of the Psychological Discourse
Through the ethnographies of two schools serving different socioeconomic communities, this article offers an examination of students’ and teachers’ interpretations of the anti-racism text “Brown Morning” taught in civics classes. Findings present the dramatic differences between the interpretations of students from dissimilar socioeconomic communities, the manners in which these interpretations discordantly activate the teachers, and the disparit…
Ethnographies of Maintenance of a New Self
This article suggests expanding the discussion regarding the association between educational boarding schools, social class, and one’s sense of self, by examining the issue of how subjects who experienced reconstruction of the self continue to maintain this reconstruction as the years go by. This issue is hereby discussed by way of the case study of the Boarding School for Gifted Disadvantaged in Israel. The subjects of study are defined as “ethn…
Ethnicity without ethnicity: I'm beyond that story' state arrangements, re-education and (new) ethnicity in Israel
This article examines the connection between state ethnic classifications and the way they are perceived by individuals in everyday life. Using the case of the Boarding School for the Gifted Disadvantaged in Israel which is open to immigrants, an attempt was made to reach an understanding of how individuals who have experienced deliberate state intervention in the ethnic component of their selfhood, experience this intervention years after the (r…
Youth, class, and happiness
Palatable Arabs: Palestinian Professionals in Work Organizations in Israel
This article examines the experiences of Palestinian professionals in work organizations in Israel with regard to everyday racism and their strategies for coping with it. The study findings reveal how Palestinian professionals face a new cultural script of Arabness that includes two social categories: “exaggerated” Arabness and “palatable” Arabness. Furthermore, Palestinian professionals describe how their relationships with their Jewish colleagu…
Affective governmentality through gratitude: Governmental rationality, education, and everyday life
One of the most thought-provoking contemporary developments in the study of governmentality is the concept of affective governmentality, alluding to how emotions play an important role in the regulation of individuals and populations. This article proposes to examine affective governmentality through the governmental construction and the phenomenological maintenance of gratitude among graduates of a state-run boarding school in Israel that serves…
Translating a national grand narrative into a personal biographies: Alternative biographies among siblings in everyday life
This article examines the connection between grand narratives and the creative ways that individuals translate them into personal biographies through a case study of a boarding school for gifted disadvantaged youth in Israel. To test the state’s grand narrative, I performed a content analysis of minutes of governmental protocols as well as organizational reports at the time the boarding school was established. The state grand narrative stresses t…
Ethnic mobility: Ethno-Class Identities and Self-Negation
This article examines the relationship between ethnic and class identities among members of a stigmatic ethnic group (Mizrahim) who experience upward mobility in Israel. The findings show how mobile Mizrahim do not report a classic cleft habitus, but rather a amalgam between the types of habitus associated with mobility, strategic preference of class identities, and maintenance of distance from ethnic identity. At the same time, the findings also…
I live one day at a time”: Future orientation among Muslim high school dropouts in Israel
Relocated ethnicities: How do national-cultural repertoires shape the ethnicities of migrants? Evidence from Israeli Mizrahim in Israel, the United States, and Germany
This article examines how national-cultural repertoires influence ethnic identities. The study focuses on Mizrahim (Israeli Jews originating from Arab countries) who achieved class and geographic mobility (or relocation) in three countries: Israel, the United States, and Germany. The findings of our qualitative interview-based study show that all the mobile Mizrahim report dissociation from the Israeli Mizrahiness, considered stigmatic and damagi…
Ethnographies of Therapeutic Governance and Agentic Resistance in Support Groups for Prisoner's Wives
This article suggests expanding our understanding about the mundane use of therapeutic governance regarding welfare populations, through ethnographies of support groups for prisoners' wives in Israel. The findings reveal that although prisoners' wives meet the neoliberal ideal of financial independence (and therefore it is not possible to regulate them by discourse of need), they are regulated via the discourse of desire. The findings also disclo…
Complex Worker: Self-Concept and Boundary-Work Among the Solo Self-Employed
This article proposes to examine the self-concept of members of an occupational category referred to as the “solo self-employed”—women and men who work alone and do not employ other workers. Our findings reveal that although the solo self-employed themselves do not make clear phenomenological use of the solo-self-employed category, they do speak similarly about their occupational independence, albeit without group awareness. The self-concept of t…
Seeing Like a DSM: Therapeutic Governance, Welfare, and Social Workers
This article suggests considering the processes affiliated with therapeutic governance through the relationships between social workers and prisoners’ wives. Research findings reveal unique practices of therapeutic governance that in turn maintain the state gazes that help regulate welfare individuals and populations: the invention of psychiatric categories and the conviction that they appear in the hegemonic psychiatric classification manual ( D…
Metaphors, self and reeducation
This study examines how graduates of a specific educational institution (“The Boarding School for the Gifted Disadvantaged” in Israel) integrate their school experiences into their life story. The in-depth interviews with the boarding school graduates demonstrate special use of the gift metaphor to describe their selfhood and their phenomenological attitude toward the boarding school. Against this backdrop, the article inductively extracts five v…
Ethno‐Class Distinctions and Reality ( TV )
This article offers a cultural‐sociological analysis of interpretations by viewers from different classes on the most popular reality show in Israel, namely, Big Brother. The findings of this study show dramatic differences in viewing practices according to class and ethnic distinctions of the viewers. Viewers from the upper socioeconomic class primarily addressed the way in which the subjects from the low socioeconomic class and marked ethnic gr…
Learning is not the most important thing; it's to make them into human beings”: Teacher identity in vocational schools in Israel
Teacher identity in elite schools in Israel: Shared habitus, a sense of chosenness, and an open future
What for? I'll be 18 soon and getting out of here”: Future orientation among immigrant at-risk youth in Israel
Notq Arrives at the Clinic: How Druze Therapists Deal with the Cultural Phenomenon of Remembering and Talking about Previous Incarnation Among the Druze in Israel
This article deals with the cultural idiom Notq-the remembering and talking about a previous incarnation among the Druze. The study focuses on the interface between the dominant Western psychological perspective and the Druze ethnopsychology. Sixteen Druze therapists including social workers and psychologists were interviewed about the Notq and how it arises in the clinic. The research shows that while the therapists understand and respect Notq, …
My Body Spoke to Me”: “Marginal” Organs, Metonymic Somatization, and the Pain of Social Selection
Through in‐depth interviews, this article examines the accounts of subjects who, due to their selfhood and bodies being marked as “ethnic,” do not pass the selection process to enter night clubs in Tel Aviv. Their experiences of pain are expressed via a connection between the social, the physical and the mental, and indicates a unique somatic awakening. This awakening is expressed through an experience of body parts being perceived as “transparen…
Brown Morning: ’ Classed Interpretations of Anti-Racist Text
This article examines the interpretations of high school students from different socioeconomic locations (in terms of socioeconomic class and ethnicity) with regard to the text Brown Morning, used as a didactic tool for antiracism education within the framework of Civics courses. The research findings uncover differences in the students’ interpretations of the text. An in-depth understanding of these differences will be attained through clinical …
Hierarchies of Elitism among Urban and Rural Palestinian Students in Israel
This research investigates Palestinian students residing in both urban and rural areas who are enrolled in an elite high school located in a mixed Arab-Jewish city in northern Israel. We investigate how these divergent backgrounds influence their experiences and perceptions of their elite identities and how elite identities within national minority sub-groups (urban and rural) impact the formation and perpetuation of intra-group hierarchies. We f…
School without parents: Problematizing the Accounts of Vocational School Principals About Their Relationships With Their Students' Parents
This article examines how vocational school principals in Israel view their relationships with their students' parents. Interviews with 26 vocational school principals reveal three predominant themes: lamenting the parents' lack of involvement, describing the parents through the deficit discourse, and adopting a managerial strategy of operating a ‘school without parents.’ This approach to parents carries implications, such as implementing many im…
Translating a national grand narrative into a personal biographies: Alternative biographies among siblings in everyday life
This article examines the connection between grand narratives and the creative ways that individuals translate them into personal biographies through a case study of a boarding school for gifted disadvantaged youth in Israel. To test the state’s grand narrative, I performed a content analysis of minutes of governmental protocols as well as organizational reports at the time the boarding school was established. The state grand narrative stresses t…
Youth, class, and reality (TV): The discursive alliance between the orientalist discourse and the neo-liberal discourse
This article addresses the interpretive readings that teenagers from a high socio-economic class offer for one of the most popular reality programs in Israel: Big Brother. The findings of the study demonstrate how the youth completely focused on the ‘ethnic other' in Israel (Oriental characters). The dominant interpretations of the participants suggested open use of accounts affiliated with Orientalist discourse. The findings of the study also sh…
Reflexivity, Conformity, and Israeli Big Brother
This article examines how regular viewers of the reality program Big Brother interpret the program in Israel. The findings of the study reveal that viewers emphasize the formal characteristics of the program stimulate them in a way that other reality programs do not. The interviewees report the program influences them in three ways: excessive preoccupation about personal reflexivity (talking with the televisual other), an experience of inundation…
Metaphors, self and reeducation
This study examines how graduates of a specific educational institution (“The Boarding School for the Gifted Disadvantaged” in Israel) integrate their school experiences into their life story. The in-depth interviews with the boarding school graduates demonstrate special use of the gift metaphor to describe their selfhood and their phenomenological attitude toward the boarding school. Against this backdrop, the article inductively extracts five v…
Ethno‐Class Distinctions and Reality ( TV )
This article offers a cultural‐sociological analysis of interpretations by viewers from different classes on the most popular reality show in Israel, namely, Big Brother. The findings of this study show dramatic differences in viewing practices according to class and ethnic distinctions of the viewers. Viewers from the upper socioeconomic class primarily addressed the way in which the subjects from the low socioeconomic class and marked ethnic gr…
Brown Morning: ’ Classed Interpretations of Anti-Racist Text
This article examines the interpretations of high school students from different socioeconomic locations (in terms of socioeconomic class and ethnicity) with regard to the text Brown Morning, used as a didactic tool for antiracism education within the framework of Civics courses. The research findings uncover differences in the students’ interpretations of the text. An in-depth understanding of these differences will be attained through clinical …
Ethnographies of Maintenance of a New Self
This article suggests expanding the discussion regarding the association between educational boarding schools, social class, and one’s sense of self, by examining the issue of how subjects who experienced reconstruction of the self continue to maintain this reconstruction as the years go by. This issue is hereby discussed by way of the case study of the Boarding School for Gifted Disadvantaged in Israel. The subjects of study are defined as “ethn…
Ethnicity without ethnicity: I'm beyond that story' state arrangements, re-education and (new) ethnicity in Israel
This article examines the connection between state ethnic classifications and the way they are perceived by individuals in everyday life. Using the case of the Boarding School for the Gifted Disadvantaged in Israel which is open to immigrants, an attempt was made to reach an understanding of how individuals who have experienced deliberate state intervention in the ethnic component of their selfhood, experience this intervention years after the (r…
The language of everyday racism and microaggression in the workplace: Palestinian professionals in Israel
Based on interviews with Palestinian professionals in Jewish organizations in Israel, this article discloses a distinctive practice of 'everyday racism' and microaggression - a language of everyday racism. This 'language of everyday racism' refers to Hebrew words and expressions that are routinely used by Jews in their mundane conversations and that include the word 'Arab' when describing a deficiency or defect, some sort of unsightliness, filth,…
Agentive suspension of oppressive structures: Self-concept and emotion-work among Muslim mothers who study at a Jewish university
This article aims to highlight the significance of self-concept and emotion-work in the everyday experiences of Muslim mothers who are students at a Jewish university. This research objective was achieved by means of in-depth interviews with mothers who are all studying to earn master’s degrees. Our study reveals three main findings. The first is an ‘inundated self’ that experiences frequent phenomenological preoccupation with the dialectic betwe…
Ethnographies of "A Lesson in Racism": Class, Ethnicity, and the Supremacy of the Psychological Discourse
Through the ethnographies of two schools serving different socioeconomic communities, this article offers an examination of students’ and teachers’ interpretations of the anti-racism text “Brown Morning” taught in civics classes. Findings present the dramatic differences between the interpretations of students from dissimilar socioeconomic communities, the manners in which these interpretations discordantly activate the teachers, and the disparit…
Cultural repertoires, discursive alliances, and the phenomenology of ethnoracial exclusions
The book Getting Respect is crucial to the in-depth comprehension of the relations between cultural repertoires and the phenomenology of everyday life, the cultural processes affiliated with becoming a subject, and the cultural dynamics that create and maintain inequality. Following a description of the principal findings in the book, a discussion will be offered about four important issues that the book encourages us to continue to research, and…
Palatable Arabs: Palestinian Professionals in Work Organizations in Israel
This article examines the experiences of Palestinian professionals in work organizations in Israel with regard to everyday racism and their strategies for coping with it. The study findings reveal how Palestinian professionals face a new cultural script of Arabness that includes two social categories: “exaggerated” Arabness and “palatable” Arabness. Furthermore, Palestinian professionals describe how their relationships with their Jewish colleagu…
Listening to Bedouin Mothers of Children with Autism
Seeing Like a DSM: Therapeutic Governance, Welfare, and Social Workers
This article suggests considering the processes affiliated with therapeutic governance through the relationships between social workers and prisoners’ wives. Research findings reveal unique practices of therapeutic governance that in turn maintain the state gazes that help regulate welfare individuals and populations: the invention of psychiatric categories and the conviction that they appear in the hegemonic psychiatric classification manual ( D…
My Body Spoke to Me”: “Marginal” Organs, Metonymic Somatization, and the Pain of Social Selection
Through in‐depth interviews, this article examines the accounts of subjects who, due to their selfhood and bodies being marked as “ethnic,” do not pass the selection process to enter night clubs in Tel Aviv. Their experiences of pain are expressed via a connection between the social, the physical and the mental, and indicates a unique somatic awakening. This awakening is expressed through an experience of body parts being perceived as “transparen…
Shameless Accounts: Against Psychological Subjectivity and Vulnerable Femininity Among Prisoners' Wives in Israel
The Ethic of Spirituality and the Non-Angry Subject
This article is based on ethnographic studies of several spiritual groups in Israel. It offers a critical analysis of the discursive practices employed with regard to the link between spirituality and anger. We found that the emotion of anger occupies a singular status in New Age culture. By marking it as an uncontrollable and explosive emotion, anger is constructed as a key emotion that reflects and signifies the subject's proximity to the ideal…
Youth, class, and happiness
Ethnographies of Therapeutic Governance and Agentic Resistance in Support Groups for Prisoner's Wives
This article suggests expanding our understanding about the mundane use of therapeutic governance regarding welfare populations, through ethnographies of support groups for prisoners' wives in Israel. The findings reveal that although prisoners' wives meet the neoliberal ideal of financial independence (and therefore it is not possible to regulate them by discourse of need), they are regulated via the discourse of desire. The findings also disclo…
Complex Worker: Self-Concept and Boundary-Work Among the Solo Self-Employed
This article proposes to examine the self-concept of members of an occupational category referred to as the “solo self-employed”—women and men who work alone and do not employ other workers. Our findings reveal that although the solo self-employed themselves do not make clear phenomenological use of the solo-self-employed category, they do speak similarly about their occupational independence, albeit without group awareness. The self-concept of t…
Separatist biopolitics: The dual discourse of the vocational education policy in Israel
This article offers a critical discursive analysis of the Israeli Ministry of Education’s renewed interest in vocational education. This analysis reveals three discursive practices for promoting vocational education among key participants in the field: the rhetorical transition from ‘vocational education’ to ‘technological education’; the disregard for the tracking involved in vocational education; the government’s refusal to collect or publish s…
A biographical nadir: Life stories of adults who were educated in childhood at therapeutic boarding schools for ‘children at risk’
This article examines the life stories of adults in Israel who were defined as ‘at-risk children’ in their childhood and removed from their homes by court order to therapeutic boarding schools against the backdrop of ‘inadequate parenting,’ ‘neglect,’ and/or ‘abuse.’ The findings reveal how graduates experienced their forced removal from the family home as a life event that shattered their phenomenological taken-for-granted knowledge. Graduates a…
What for? I'll be 18 soon and getting out of here”: Future orientation among immigrant at-risk youth in Israel
I live one day at a time”: Future orientation among Muslim high school dropouts in Israel
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